The "Lord God" then told Adam that he had eaten of the tree which he had commanded him not to eat, whereupon Adam said: "The _woman_ whom thou gavest to be with me, _she_ gave me of the tree and I did eat."
When the "Lord God" spoke to the woman concerning her transgression, she blamed the _serpent_, which she said "beguiled" her. This sealed the serpent's fate, for the "Lord God" cursed him and said:
"Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and _dust_ shalt thou eat all the days of thy life."[4:1]
"I will greatly multiply thy sorrow, and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, _and he shall rule over thee_."
"Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also, and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground, _for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return_."
The "Lord God" then made coats of skin for Adam and his wife, with which he clothed them, after which he said:
"Behold, the man is become _as one of us_,[5:1] to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" (he must be sent forth from Eden).
"So he (the Lord God) drove out the man (and the woman); and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden, Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the Tree of Life."
Before proceeding to show from whence this legend, or legends, had their origin, we will notice a feature which is very prominent in the narrative, and which cannot escape the eye of an observing reader, _i. e._, _the two different and contradictory accounts of the creation_.
The first of these commences at the first verse of chapter first, and ends at the third verse of chapter second. The second account commences at the fourth verse of chapter second, and continues to the end of the chapter.
In speaking of these contradictory accounts of the Creation, Dean Stanley says: